Historical significance of 78-0
Scoring 70 or more has only been done 22 times in Michigan history.
It was only the second time EVER that we scored 70 or more on the road.
Also was only the 4th time we did so in a B1G game.
Let's take a look-
Date | Opponent | Result |
11/24/1888 | vs Albion | W 76-4 |
10/8/1892 | vs Michigan Athletic Association | W 74-0 |
11/18/1893 | vs Northwestern | W 72-6 |
10/26/1901 | vs Buffalo | W 128-0 |
11/23/1901 | vs Beloit | W 89-0 |
9/27/1902 | vs Albion | W 88-0 |
10/8/1902 | vs Michigan State | W 119-0 |
10/25/1902 | vs Ohio State | W 86-0 |
11/8/1902 | vs Iowa | W 107-0 |
10/8/1903 | vs Albion | W 76-0 |
10/10/1903 | vs Beloit | W 79-0 |
10/21/1903 | vs Ferris State | W 88-0 |
10/8/1904 | vs Kalamazoo | W 95-0 |
10/12/1904 | vs Physicians & Surgeons (Chi) | W 72-0 |
10/19/1904 | vs American Medical School (Chi) | W 72-0 |
10/22/1904 | vs West Virginia | W 130-0 |
10/25/1905 | vs Albion | W 70-0 |
11/25/1905 | vs Oberlin | W 75-0 |
10/21/1939 | at Chicago | W 85-0 |
9/25/1976 | vs Navy | W 70-14 |
11/7/1981 | vs Illinois | W 70-21 |
10/8/2016 | at Rutgers | W 78-0 |
October 13th, 2016 at 5:36 AM ^
Or be a complete douche as you have been here.
October 12th, 2016 at 11:45 AM ^
Hey everyone, we've got a Cool Negative Guy sighting! He's so amazingly cool in his effort to be a downer about every good thing that happens to the program! He deserves nothing but our utmost adulation! If only we could be so cool!
October 12th, 2016 at 1:39 PM ^
Ad hominem. So nice to see that the internet keeping true to always regressing towards a middle school mean.
October 12th, 2016 at 10:08 AM ^
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October 12th, 2016 at 10:14 AM ^
Boy we used to beat the shit out of Albion back in the day.
October 12th, 2016 at 11:25 AM ^
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October 12th, 2016 at 10:17 AM ^
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October 12th, 2016 at 10:21 AM ^
.....but I think that the 1976 game between Navy (Carter) and Michigan (Ford) was the first and only time that the alma maters of the two presidential candidates played against each other in an election year.
That was my brother's freshman year at Michigan and I sort of think that I was at the game (was in 6th grade) but don't completely remember.
October 12th, 2016 at 10:30 AM ^
That's a really neat piece of trivia.
October 12th, 2016 at 10:44 AM ^
Seems strange, given how many candidates went to Ivy League schools. In fact, aren't Yale and Penn playing this year?
October 12th, 2016 at 11:07 AM ^
I'm going back 40 years in the memory bank. It would make sense that Ivy League candidates would have their teams play each other. I'll need to look at this more closely. Maybe it was the first time at that time?
October 12th, 2016 at 11:19 AM ^
If you limit it to undergraduate alma maters, it still might be the case. Obviously Wellesley College does not have a football team, so there is no danger of a matchup this year.
October 12th, 2016 at 12:39 PM ^
I did some additional research going back to 1928 (hard to Wiki some of the losing candidates prior to that). Using the "undergrad" criteria, I found one other instance of presidential candidates playing each other in football during an election year. Bush (Yale) vs Gore (Harvard) in 2000. It still looks like Navy vs. Michigan was the first time.
Another interesting note: Thomas Dewey (lost to FDR in 1944 and Truman in 1948) was a Michigan grad. Born and raised in Owosso.
October 12th, 2016 at 4:37 PM ^
The Wellesley powder puff team would be even money against Rutgers, even with present day Hilary at qb.
October 12th, 2016 at 10:36 AM ^
October 12th, 2016 at 10:48 AM ^
The statement it was the 4th Michigan broke 70 in a B1G game is shaky, at best.
Aside from the fact that the Big Ten name wasn't used until 1917, neither Ohio State nor Michigan State were in the Big Nine/Western Conference as of 1902.
October 12th, 2016 at 10:52 AM ^
Iowa, Chicago, Illinois & Rutgers were all B1G games.
5th time in conference games as we were in the IAANW with Northwestern when we beat them 72-6.
October 12th, 2016 at 10:53 AM ^
I am an idiot.
October 12th, 2016 at 10:56 AM ^
Doctors are not good at football.
October 12th, 2016 at 11:21 AM ^
For the most part, that seems to be the case here, but to be fair, Michigan never had the chance to play the Chicago College Of Osteopathic Medicine, which for many years was tops in their conference - I believe the Chicagoland Physician's Conference - for deep body massages, if nothing else. That, and trying to get to Downers Grove can be hard at certain times of the day anyway, so I imagine the logistics of such a matchup came into play 100 years ago too.
October 12th, 2016 at 4:41 PM ^
Especially on Martian days.
October 13th, 2016 at 5:40 AM ^
I picture the football scene in M*A*S*H*
October 12th, 2016 at 10:56 AM ^
Poor Albion.
October 12th, 2016 at 11:00 AM ^
The last 2 times Michigan scored 70 points (1976 Navy, 1981 Illinois), Michigan was losing the game midway through the second quarter.
Navy led Michigan 14-12 in the second quarter and I think (going from memory) it was only 21-14 at halftime. Illinois led Michigan 21-7 in the second quarter and was very close to going up 28-7 until Michigan grabbed an interception in the end zone.
October 12th, 2016 at 11:03 AM ^
has any team scored more then 78 in a game. Crazy to think in all those years that was the 11th highest scoring game ever.
October 12th, 2016 at 11:47 AM ^
October 12th, 2016 at 1:28 PM ^
I find it impossible to compare scores today with anything before about 1960. The parity in the game today, the heightened competition, the fact that it was a B1G foe (yes, a weak one but still) on the road and not an FCS tomato can at home, etc, all make it much more difficult to dominate in the fashion that we did. I rate our 78-0 win as the most historically dominant win in Michigan history.
October 12th, 2016 at 1:39 PM ^
If we had done it against an actual Div 1-A football program.
October 12th, 2016 at 2:17 PM ^
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October 12th, 2016 at 2:55 PM ^
I like to imagine that "Physicians & Surgeons" isn't actually a school, but rather a random collections of doctors who Michigan happened to scrape together as an opponent.
October 12th, 2016 at 3:31 PM ^
I appreciate the W's in front of each score!
October 12th, 2016 at 4:33 PM ^
Interesting that Iowa, MSU and OSU are all on the list for 1902 for a combined score of 302-0. Its a well know fact that history repeats itself every 114 years.
October 12th, 2016 at 4:40 PM ^
I am curious, I've heard that Michigan set a team record with nine rushing touchdowns in the 78-0 win against Rutgers, but certainly many of these other games had more rushing touchdowns, particularly in the 100+ games. What gives? Lack of a box score in those early game?
Also, some news outlets, like mlive, called this "the program's third largest margin of victory ... ever." This doesn't make sense unless that are excluding games before the 130-0 drubbing of West Virginia on 10/22/1904.
October 12th, 2016 at 5:33 PM ^
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October 12th, 2016 at 6:15 PM ^
10/8/1902 vs Michigan State W 119-0
10/25/1902 vs Ohio State W 86-0
11/8/1902 vs Iowa W 107-0
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October 12th, 2016 at 6:33 PM ^
October 13th, 2016 at 1:09 AM ^
So, was Rich Rod WVU's long delayed revenge for the events of 10/22/1904? (I kid, I kid! Don't light me up!)